Kylee Francescan was bringing her own recyclables to the bin when she spotted all the mail addressed to a post office box for Taylor Swift Entertainment, some of it decorated with hearts and sparkles.

"There were like hundreds of letters in there to Taylor Swift and I'm like, 'Oh my gosh!'" Francescan told WKRN News. "I didn't know if they were stolen [or] discarded, so I threw them in a box. And I'm like, 'Somebody needs to let Taylor know.'"

The Nashville TV station she contacted took up the task. A man at Swift's record company, Big Machine Records, didn't know how the letters ended up in the bin, WKRN reported. A spokeswoman for Swift's management team told them Swift receives thousands of letters a day.

"After the letters are opened and read, they are recycled," Paula Erickson told WKRN, adding that the unopened letters may have inadvertently been placed with some outgoing recycling.

Erickson said the letters would be picked up immediately.

"It did bother me," Francescan told WKRN. "I know how much her fans mean to her."

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